qualis
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- (“interrogative, relative stem”) and maybe *h₂el- (“to grow”) (cf. the sense of indolēs, from this root). Cognate with Ancient Greek πηλίκος (pēlíkos).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkʷaː.lis/, [ˈkʷaː.lɪs]
Adjective
quālis (neuter quāle); third declension
- what (kind, condition, etc.)
- (in similes) such... as, such as, as
Inflection
Third declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | quālis | quāle | quālēs | quālia | |
| Genitive | quālis | quālis | quālium | quālium | |
| Dative | quālī | quālī | quālibus | quālibus | |
| Accusative | quālem | quāle | quālēs, quālīs | quālia | |
| Ablative | quālī | quālī | quālibus | quālibus | |
| Vocative | quālis | quāle | quālēs | quālia | |
Coordinate terms
Descendants
References
- qualis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- qualis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- qualis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- qualis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to determine the nature and constitution of the subject under discussion: constituere, quid et quale sit, de quo disputetur
- (ambiguous) to determine the nature and constitution of the subject under discussion: constituere, quid et quale sit, de quo disputetur
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